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My people too were scared with eerie sounds, A footstep, a low throbbing in the walls, A noise of falling weights that never fell, weird whispers, bells that rang without a hand, Door-handles turn'd when none was at the door, And bolted doors that open'd of themselves; And one betwixt the dark and light had seen Her, bending by the cradle of her babe.
Alfred Tennyson— The Ring.
Brasília is a weird place but I like being here. I can focus on the job here, there's no city madness and I don't need urban stimulation.
gilberto gil— Steward, Sue (2003-10-19). "Minister of cool: part one". The Observer (Guardian Media Group). Retrieved on 2008-03-16.
There is no field other than the weird in which I have any aptitude or inclination for fictional composition. Life has never interested me so much as the escape from life.
h. p. lovecraft— Letter to J. Vernon Shea (7 August 1931), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, p. 579
I wish I could do some really weird stuff for you guys, you know?
jim carrey— After a stint of hyperactive gymnastic antics upon the stage.
(On performing in Costa Rica for the first time) It was like finding some weird tribe in the middle of the jungle and, you know, they all come out and go: "Fear of the Dark. Favorite Album." What?!?
bruce dickinson— Iron Maiden: Flight 666
Some are born weird, some achieve it, others have weirdness thrust upon them.
dick francis— To the Hilt (1996)
I didn't realize how much of a Hoosier or a Midwesterner I was until I moved to New York. It's weird -- growing up in Indiana, I wanted to get out, and now I completely romanticize Indiana. It just seems like there's a greater focus on family back there, which I suppose is something that kind of stayed with me.
jim gaffigan— Bob Kostanczuk (June 24, 2001) "Gaffigan laugh again with Northwest Indiana native bounces back from shaky sitcom by hooking up with new 'Ellen' show", Post-Tribune, p. D1.
Everyone's entitled to their point of view but that's seriously a weird one.
kevin rudd— Attacks on Abbott cheap and nasty, says Pell. The Age (February 15, 2006). Retrieved on 13 February, 2008.
— Response to Liberal MP Danna Vale's comment that Australia's rising abortion rate indicated that it might become a Muslim nation in 50 years.
Oh, I think it was like when, you know, Cupid throws an arrow and hits you. First, there was this Mexican band, dressed up with bows and arrows. They were playing some funky weird music,, I didn't know it yet, but it was like Lee Perry, George Clinton, and Sun Ra mixed up, Mexican funky.
carlos santana— On his first musical memory.[[2]]
Doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?
david shuster— David Shuster: Chelsea Being "Pimped Out?", Feb 7, 2008 (YouTube) : On Chelsea Clinton campaigning for her mother.
I just feel that there's a little bit of lack of respect and class just to kind of leave a tournament like that and then come out and practice here, especially being the hostess. You know, I don't know the situation, if it's injury or whatever it is. It's just -- it just seemed really weird.
annika sörenstam— Annika Sorenstam comments re Michelle Wie - Press Conference 2007 LPGA Championships [[4]]
Sundance is weird. The movies are weird — you actually have to think about them when you watch them.
britney spears— After walking out of a screening of The Singing Detective (2003) at the Sundance Film Festival; quoted in The Washington Post (31 January 2003) and other newspapers; later in TIME Magazine (10 February 2003) p. 21.
Far up above, aliens hover Making home movies for the folks back home Of all these weird creatures that lock up their spirits Drill holes in themselves and live for their secrets
thom yorke— "Subterranean Homesick Alien"
Some people didn't like the novel, it is in some ways extremely bleak. But if you are dealing with the kind of subjects I am trying to demystify the delusions we have about ourselves, to get a more accurate fix on human nature then people are unsettled. And the easiest way to deal with that is to say it's weird or it's cold.
j. g. ballard— On his novel Crash, as quoted in "The benign catastrophist" by Susie Mackenzie in The Guardian (6 September 2003)
I wouldn't want to forget anything, even the weird stuff and the bad stuff. It makes you who you are.
amber benson— Amber Benson - Interview at Madame Tussaud's - 10 December, 2003
The word " philosophy " carries unfortunate connotations: impractical, unworldly, weird.
simon blackburn— Introduction, p. 1
I saw a bunch of the weirdest, oddest people I have ever met in my life , who thought different, and acted different, and even made love different. And they made me laugh , and get angry , and be happy , and be sad , and excited, and even fall in love a little....And they didn’t seem to be so weird or strange anymore.
samuel r. delany— Part 5, Chapter 1
People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.
donald knuth— Vol. I Fasc. 1, "MMIX, a RISC computer for the new millennium"
One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of imagination which suffuses them and style alike with that grotesquerie and disquieting distortion characteristic of morbid vision. Only a cynic can create horror for behind every masterpiece of the sort must reside a driving daemonic force that despises the human race and its illusions, and longs to pull them to pieces and mock them.
h. p. lovecraft— Letter to Weird Tales editor Edwin Baird printed in Weird Tales 3, no. 3 (March 1924), pp. 89-92. Quoted in Lord of a Visible World: An Autobiography in Letters edited by S. T. Joshi, p. 122
It's not a bad idea to call this Cthulhuism & Yog-Sothothery of mine "The Mythology of Hastur" although it was really from Machen & Dunsany & others, rather than through the Bierce - Chambers line, that I picked up my gradually developing hash of theogony or daimonogony. Come to think of it, I guess I sling this stuff more as Chambers does than as Machen & Dunsany do though I had written a good deal of it before I ever suspected that Chambers ever wrote a weird story!
h. p. lovecraft— Letter to August Derleth (16 May 1931), responding to Derleth's suggestion that he call the interconnected mythology of his stories (what would later be known as the Cthulhu Mythos) "The Mythology of Hastur", quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, p. 505
Tcl tends to get ported to weird places like routers.
larry wall— Usenet article <199710071721.KAA19014@wall.org> (1997)
And other operators aren't so special syntactically, but weird in other ways, like 'scalar', and 'goto'.
larry wall— Usenet article <199711071749.JAA29751@wall.org> (1997)
His heart was in the right place. He wanted a religion that could plausibly comfort widows and orphans without committing them to patriarchy, intolerance, fundamentalism, or weird dietary laws. He wanted a religion that wasn’t in a perpetual fistfight with modern cosmology.
robert charles wilson— Chapter 22 (p. 255)
I just tend to admire people who go for what they believe in, like David Lynch for example, and just say what goes through their heads, and are not afraid of people not accepting them. I have no respect for people who deliberately try to be weird to attract attention, but if that's who you honestly are, you shouldn't try to "normalize yourself". It's a fine line.
alicia witt— AOL Live (1996)
From a wild weird clime that lieth, sublime Out of Space out of Time.
— Edgar Allen Poe, Dreamland, line 7.
That is weird.
— When he sees the Emma place Mimzy into the time portal.
Just this weird note I found taped to these rocks we passed: "Don't look, or it takes you." (Glimmer: Well, that's strange.) What do you think it means?
— Who: Marvel
— Source: How The Hunger Games Should Have Ended- Slender Games
— Note: Shows a page note to Cato's team, and is then captured and likely killed by Slenderman while the others flee.
I'm 14-years-old, and I still had a nanny. That was weird.
— Who: Tony Stark
— Source: Iron Man 3 (2013)
— Notes:
